A step-by-step recipe with a photo of making homemade chocolates in chocolate from dried fruits for the New Year 2020. A healthy dessert with nutritional value. Video recipe.
New Year's table is not only about hot dishes, salads and snacks. It also includes sweet and savory pastries, desserts, and, of course, sweets. We will talk about cooking the latter in this review. After all, neither New Year 2020 nor Christmas will pass without sweets. Yes, candy can be bought at the store and will be delicious. But are they useful ?! And homemade sweets are guaranteed not only to be tasty, but also not to harm a child's or an adult's body. They do not contain stabilizers, flavor enhancers, harmful chemical additives … Therefore, we will prepare homemade sweets in chocolate from dried fruits.
Dried fruits are not only tasty and healthy, but if you hide them in a layer of dark chocolate, you get a very exquisite culinary masterpiece. You can not only feed a sweet tooth with such candies, but also present them as a gift in a beautiful themed box, or wrap them in candy wrappers and hang them on the Christmas tree as a decoration. In addition, the preparation of dried fruits in chocolate is not difficult and does not require a lot of time.
See also how to make a New Year's cupcake.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 325 kcal.
- Servings - 15-20 pcs.
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Dried apricots - 150 g
- Peeled sunflower seeds - 50 g
- Walnuts - 100 g
- Dark chocolate - 100 g
Step-by-step preparation of homemade chocolate-covered sweets from dried fruits for the New Year 2020, a recipe with a photo:
1. Wash dried apricots with hot water and pour boiling water over them so that they swell and become soft.
2. Pre-dry walnuts and sunflower seeds in a clean and dry frying pan or in the oven. Send the seeds and kernels to the dried apricot shredder. If you wish, you can add prunes, raisins, figs and other dried fruits to the sweets.
3. Grind food until smooth, sticky. If there is no chopper, twist the food through a meat grinder.
4. Wet hands in cold water and form into medium-sized round candies. Ideal size for chocolates ranging from cherry to walnut.
5. Break the chocolate into slices and place in a bowl. Melt it in a water bath or microwave to a liquid consistency. Do not bring it to a boil, otherwise it will acquire bitterness, from which it will be impossible to get rid of.
6. Dip the candies into the melted chocolate and turn them over several times so that they are covered with icing on all sides. If you wish, you can crush the sweets on top with crushed chocolate, coconut, etc.
7. Spread the candies on baking parchment or cling foil so they don't touch each other. Send them to the refrigerator for half an hour to harden the frosting. Then serve homemade chocolate-covered sweets from dried fruits on the festive table of the New Year 2020.
See also a video recipe on how to make dried fruit sweets.
